今宵

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Chinese

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today; modern; present
today; modern; present; current; this; now
 
night
trad. (今宵)
simp. #(今宵)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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今宵

  1. (literary) tonight

Synonyms

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (今宵):
  • Korean: 금소(今宵) (geumso)

Japanese

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Kanji in this term

Grade: 2
よい
Grade: S
irregular kun'yomi

Etymology

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⟨ko2 yo2pi1 → */kəjəpʲi//kojofi//kojowi//kojoi/

From Old Japanese. Compound of (ko, this) +‎ (yoi, evening).[1][2]

The use of (now) to spell the ko ("this") portion is an example of jukujikun (熟字訓), from Chinese 今宵 (jīnxiāo).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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()(よい) (koyoiこよひ (koyofi)?

  1. (poetic) this evening, tonight
    Synonyms: 今晩 (konban), 今夜 (kon'ya)
    • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 14, poem 3469:
      ,[4] text here
      由布氣尓毛(ゆふけにも)許余比(こよひ)登乃良路(とのらろ)和賀西奈波(わがせなは)阿是曽母(あぜぞも)許与比(こよひ)与斯呂伎麻左奴(よしろきまさぬ) [Man'yōgana]
      (ゆふ)()にもこよひ()らろ()()はあぜぞもこよひ()しろ()まさぬ [Modern spelling]
      yūke ni mo koyoi to noraro waga sena wa aze zo mo koyoi yoshiro-kimasenu
      (please add an English translation of this example)
  2. (in the morning, from the perspective of “this night (that has just ended)”) last night
    Synonyms: 昨晩 (sakuban), 夕べ (yūbe)

References

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  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ^ Satake, Akihiro with Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, and Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Man’yōshū 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 2002, →ISBN.